Yukon Metals identifies priority drill targets at Birch copper-gold project

Yukon Metals (CSE: YMC) reported on Wednesday results of an electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) and induced polarization (IP) geophysical survey program over its Birch property, located 65 km northeast of Burwash Landing in Canada’s Yukon Territory.

The 7,000-hectare Birch project is one of the company’s 17 properties across 42,500 hectares in the Yukon.

Yukon Metals’ geologists completed eight ERT and IP geophysical surveys over the eastern portion of the 2024 soil sampled copper and gold anomaly at Birch and identified several high-priority drill targets.

According to Yukon Metals, the new geophysical data aligns with previously identified soil anomalies of up to 0.24% copper in soils and up to 0.99 g/t gold spanning 1,400 metres, and rock chip sampling with values up to 2.42% copper and 14.1 g/t gold, further emphasizing the project’s potential for significant mineralization.

All sections intersecting the soil anomaly zone showed geophysical anomalies below surface that are interpreted to correspond to changes in rock type and sulphide mineralization in skarn horizons over several hundred metres, the company said.

The survey identified several high-priority geophysical anomalies supporting the next phase of exploration, and the results mark an important step forward in advancing Birch as a highly prospective property for precious and base metal mineralization, it added.

The geophysical data is being integrated with surface geochemical results, geological mapping and previously collected airborne magnetic survey data to identify priority drill targets and areas for future exploration.

“With this geological survey program, which includes induced polarization, surface mapping, and soil and rock sampling programs, Yukon Metals is closer to uncovering the mineral potential of the highly prospective Birch property,” Yukon Metals CEO Rory Quinn said in a news release.

“The next step will be to commence drilling at Birch, targeting mineralized skarn horizons,” he added.